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Specimen of metal cast ornaments, curiously adjusted to paper, by Edmund Fry and Co. Letter-founders to the Prince of Wales, Type-Street.
Fry and Steele.Date: 1793- Books
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An accompaniment to the Cabinet-Maker and upholsterer's drawing-book. Containing a variety of ornaments useful for learners to copy from, but particularly adapted to the cabinet and chair branches: exhibiting original and new designs of Chair Legs, Bed Pillars, Window Cornices, Chair Splads, and other Ornaments, calculated to assist in the Decorations of the above Branches; together with instructions in letter-press. By Thomas Sheraton, Cabinet-Maker.
Sheraton, Thomas, 1751-1806.Date: [1792?]- Books
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Useful and ornamental designs in architecture. Composed in the manner of the antique, and most approved taste of the present day. The whole being peculiarly adapted for execution. By Richard Morrison, architect.
Morrison, Richard, 1767-1849.Date: 1793- Books
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The ornamental architect, or young artists instructor, consisting of the five orders, ... with their embelishments [sic] &c. Elegantly engrav'd on (102) folio-plates, by various masters. ... Publish'd by the author Matthias Darly ...
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778.Date: 1771- Books
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Specimen of brass card borders, and other ornaments, on an entire new principle, By C. & A. Paas, engravers to their Majesties.
C. &. A. Paas (London, England)Date: [1793]- Books
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The practical builder; or workman's general assistant; shewing the most approved and easy methods for drawing and working the whole or separate part of any building; The Use of Tramel for Groins, Angle Brackets, Niches, &c. Semi-Circular Arches on flewing Jambs, the preparing and making their Soffits; Rules of Carpentry, To find the Length and Backing of Hips strait or curved; Trusses for Roofs, Domes, &c. Trussing of Girders, Sections of Floors, &c. The Proportion of the Five Orders in their general and particular Parts: Gluing of Columns; Stair-Cases with their Ramp and Twist Rails, fixing the Carriages, Newels, &c. Frontispieces, Chimney-Pieces, Ceilings, Cornices, Architraves, &c. In The Newest Taste; With Plans and Elevations of Gentlemen's and Farm Houses, Barns, &c. The fifth edition; revised and corrected by the author, William Pain, Architect and Joiner. Engraved on eighty-three plates.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: M.DCC.XCIII. [1793]- Books
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The practical builder, or workman's general assistant: shewing the most approved and easy methods for drawing and working the whole or separate part of any building, as The Use of the Tramel for Groins, Angle-Brackets, Niches, &c. Semi-Circular Arches on Flewing James, the preparing and making their Soffits. Rules of Carpentry; To find the Length and Backing of Hips, strait or curved; Trusses for Roofs, Domes, &c. - Trussing of Girders, Sections of Floors, &c. The Proportion of the Five Orders, in their general and particular Parts, Gluing of Columns, Stair-Cases with their ramp and twist Rails, fixing the Carriages, Newels, &c. Frontispieces, Chimney-Pieces, Ceilings, Cornices, Architraves, &c. in the newest Taste. With plans and elevations of gentlemans and farm-houses, yards, barns, &c. By William Pain, Architect and Joiner. Engraved on eighty-three plates.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]- Books
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A catalogue of the genuine stock in trade of the late Mr. John Frankland, jeweller and filagree-worker, consisting of a Variety of Diamond-Rings, Ear-Rings, loose Stones, Watches, Snuff-Boxes, and exceeding fine Filagree-Work; Which (by Order of the Administrator) will be sold bye auction, By Mr. Gerard, At his House in Litchfield-Street, St. Anne's, Soho, On Wednesday, the 18th, and Thursday, the 19th, of December, 1776, beginning each Day at Five O'Clock precisely. To be viewed on Tuesday, the 17th, and each Day of Sale, from Eleven O'Clock till Three. Catalogues to be had at the Bank Coffee-House, and at Mr. Gerard's, aforesaid.
Gerard, Mr. (John), -1794.Date: 1776]- Books
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Designs for gates. Ornamental iron work, or designs in the present taste, for fan-lights, stair-case-railing, window-guard-irons, lamp-irons, palisades, & gates. With a scheme for adjusting designs with facility and accuracy to any slope. Engraved on twenty one plates.
Date: [1773?]- Books
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Designs of Inigo Jones and others. Published by I: Ware.
Jones, Inigo, 1573-1652.Date: 1743- Books
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The British and Irish nations are respectfully intreated to become the patrons of fine printing. And of beautiful book embellishments. On the twenty-ninth of January, 1791, Bell's new and splendid edition of The British theatre will challenge the admiration of the world.
Bell, John, 1745-1831.Date: 1790?]- Books
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The builder's director, or bench-mate: being a pocket treasury of the Grecian, Roman, and Gothic orders of architecture, Made easy to the meanest Capacity by near 500 Examples, Improved from the best Authors, Ancient and Modern, Of Pedestals, Bases, Shafts, Capitals, Columns, Architraves, Freezes, Brackets, Cornices, Arches, Imposts, Key-Stones, Trusses, Moldings of Raking Pediments, Frontispieces. Portico's, Arcades, Colonades, Chimney-Pieces, Fretts, Guilochi's, Groins, Weatherings, Moldings for Tabernacles, Frames, &c. proportioned By Minutes and by Equal Parts, The like never before Published. Engraved on 184 Copper Plates. Wherein The Orders of Andrea Palladio are truly laid down, free from erroneous Measures. Written for the Use of Gentlemen delighting in True Architecture; and for Masters and Workmen to Draw from and Work after. By Batty Langley, architect.
Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.Date: 1747- Books
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New designs for Chinese bridges, temples, triumphal arches, garden seats, palings, obelisks, termini's, &c. On fourteen copper plates. Together with full instructions to workmen annex'd to each particular design; a near estimate of their charge, and hints where with most advantage to be erected. The whole invented and drawn by Will. and John Halfpenny, architects. Part II. Published according to act of Parliament, Feb 1, 1751.
Halfpenny, William, -1755.Date: MDCCLI. [1751]- Books
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The principles of drawing ornaments made easy, by proper examples of leaves for mouldings, capitals, scrolls, Husks, Foliage, &c. Engraved In Imitation Of Drawings, on sixteen plates, With Instructions For Learning without a Master; Particularly Useful To Carvers, Cabinet-Makers, Stucco-Workers, Painters, Smiths, And every One concerned in Ornamental Decorations. By an artist.
Artist.Date: [1780]- Books
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New designs for Chinese bridges, temples, triumphal arches, garden-seats, palings, obelisks, termini, &c. On fourteen copper plates. Together with full instructions to workmen, annexed to each particular design. A near estimate of their charge, and hints where, with most advantage, to be erected. The whole invented and drawn by Will. and John Halfpenny, architects. Part II. Published according to act of Parliament.
Halfpenny, William, -1755.Date: [1755?]- Books
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The city and country builder's and workman's treasury of designs: or the art of drawing and working the ornamental parts of architecture. Illustrated by upwards of four hundred grand designs, neatly engraved on One Hundred and Eighty-Six Copper-Plates, for Piers, Gates, Doors, Windows, Niches, Buffets, Cisterns, Chimney-Pieces, Tabernacle-Frames, Pavements, Frets, Gulochi's, Pulpits, Types, Altar-Pieces, Monuments, Fonts, Obelisques, Pedestals, for Sun-Dials, Busto's, and Stone Tables, Book Cases, Cielings, and Iron Works. Proportioned by Aliquot Parts. With an Appendix of Fourteen Plates of Trusses for Girders and Beams, different Sorts of Rafters, and a Variety of Roofs, &c. To which are prefixed, The Five Orders of Columns, according to Andrea Palladio; whose Members are proportioned by Aliquot Parts, in a more easy Manner than has yet been done. The Whole interspersed With sure Rules for working all the Varieties of Raking Members in Pediments, Modillions, &c. The like, for the immediate Use of Workmen, never published before, in any Language. By B.L.
Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.Date: 1770- Books
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A new book of cyphers, wherein the various combinations of the alphabet are ornamentally dispos'd in the present taste. Extremely useful to every person wanting or using such decorations.
Date: [1773?]- Books
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A treatise on civil architecture, in which the principles of that art are laid down, and illustrated by a great number of plates, accurately designed, and elegantly engraved by the best hands. By William Chambers, Member of the Imperial Academy of Arts in Florence, and architect to their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and Princess Dowager of Wales.
Chambers, William, Sir, 1723-1796.Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]- Books
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The case concerning setting up images or painting of them in churches, writ by the learned Dr. Thomas Barlow late Bishop of Lincoln, upon his suffering such Images to be defaced in his Diocess; wherein it is Disapproved and Condemned by the Statutes and Ecclesiastical Laws of this Kingdom, and the Book of Homilies, &c. Published upon occasion of a painting set up in White-Chappel church.
Barlow, Thomas, 1607-1691.Date: 1714- Books
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Gothic architecture decorated. Consisting of a large collection of temples, banqueting, summer and green houses; ... Likewise designs of the Gothic orders, with their proper ornaments, and rules for drawing them. The whole engraved on twelve copper plates. Designed by P. Decker, ...
Decker, Paul.Date: 1759- Books
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Various kinds of floor decorations represented both in plans and perspective being useful designs for ornamenting the floors of halls, rooms, summer houses, &c. ... in twenty four copper plates. Design'd and engrav'd by John Carwitham
Carwitham, J. (John).Date: [1739]- Books
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Poetry of nature, comprising, a selection of the most sublime and beautiful apostrophes, histories, songs, elegies, &c. from the works of the Caledonian bards. The typographical execution in a style entirely new, and decorated with the superb ornaments, of the celebrated Caslon.
Date: [1789]]- Books
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Poetry of nature, comprising, a selection of the most sublime and beautiful apostrophes, histories, songs, elegies, &c. From the works of the Caledonian bards. The typographical execution in a style entirely new, and decorated with the superb ornaments, of the celebrated Caslon.
Date: [1789]]- Books
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A catalogue of modern books on architecture, theoretical, practical, and ornamental Viz. Books Of Plans And Elevations For Cottages, Farm-Houses, Mansions, &c. Temples, Bridges, &c. Of Ornaments for internal Decorations, Foliage for Carvers, &c. ON Perspective. Books of Use for Carpenters, Bricklayers, and Workmen In General, &c. &c. Which, with the best Ancient Authors, are constantly on sale at J. Taylor's Architectural Library, No.59 High Holborn, London. Where May BE Had, The Works of the most celebrated French Architects and Engineers.
Taylor, J. (Josiah).Date: [1800?]- Books
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A series of original designs for country seats or villas; containing plans and elevations, sections of the principal apartments, ceilings, chimney-pieces, capitals of columns, ornaments for friezes, and other interior decorations, in the antique style. Comprized in LVII. Plates, with Descriptions. Designed and engraved, in Aquatina. by George Richardson, Architect.
Richardson, George, 1736?-1817?.Date: MDCCXCV. [1795]